The Weekend Entrepreneur: Freelancers and Commencement Speeches

Published June 07, 2009 @ 01:06PM PT

The Self-Employed Depression: The New York Times Magazine takes a really interesting look at how the poor economy is impacting freelance entrepreneurs.

Social Capital Gains: Jon Gosier writes his first post as a TED Fellow and provides some awesome background on just how hard it is for skilled talent in East Africa to find compelling local work.

A Commencement Speech of Terror and Beauty: Change.org's Education blogger Clay adds some important critical commentary to one of the best commencement speech's I've ever read, written by Paul Hawken.

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Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.